Crime & Safety
Firefighters Contain Fire at Lake Balboa Golf Course
It took close to 50 firefighters to contain a fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at Woodley Lakes Gold Course.
About 50 firefighters used two helicopters and ground tools to keep a brushfire in the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area to four acres today.
The fire broke out at 6400 Woodley Ave., near the Woodley Lakes Golf Course, at about 1:35 p.m. today, and was declared out at 2:24 p.m.
Initial reports from the scene indicate the fire was near an airstrip used by model airplane enthusiasts, but no cause had been established immediately.
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Fire spokesman Brian Humphrey said four acres of burning grass was held in check by a lack of fuel in a 30-acre blackened plot that had burned July 16.
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